Industrial training: Britain lags well behind

Diabetes TV news coverage lags behind.

M illions of Americans depend on the national nightly network news programs for current events information (1). Previous studies showed that nightly network news coverage about diabetes paled in comparison with that given to cancer and heart disease during the 1970s and 1980s (2,3). We evaluated whether the amount of national news coverage given to diabetes had improved during the 1990s and the...

Generalization lags behind learning on an auditory perceptual task.

The generalization of learning from trained to untrained conditions is of great potential value because it markedly increases the efficacy of practice. In principle, generalization and the learning itself could arise from either the same or distinct neural changes. Here, we assessed these two possibilities in the realm of human perceptual learning by comparing the time course of improvement on ...

Industrial Mental Health in Britain

Up to the second world war, the industrial medical services in this country had paid a great deal more attention to the field of physical health and illness than to psychiatry, and much progress had certainly been made. Various occupational diseases had been discovered and some diminished, either by better conditions of work, by eliminating dangers, by better selection of work, or by earlier de...

Japan lags behind the UK in neurological drug approvals.

Title Japan lags behind the UK in neurological drug approvals. Author(s) Shimazawa, Rumiko; Ikeda, Masayuki Citation British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 71(3), pp.473-475; 2011 Issue Date 2011-03 URL http://hdl.handle.net/10069/27394 Right © 2011 The Authors. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology © 2011 The British Pharmacological Society; The definitive version is available at www.bla...

Number of health care workers lags behind population growth.